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Lawmakers say they want to fully fund TOPS, but no one making promises

Source: theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/politics/legislature/article_ccef5a98-0da5-11e7-aa03-d7855d839e0c.html - Mar 22, 2017

Legislative leaders told higher education officials Monday they hope to fully fund the TOPS college tuition program in next year's budget, rather than leaving students with only a portion of their tuition paid.

But they stopped short of making promises.

House Speaker Taylor Barras; Rep. Walt Leger, the top-ranking House Democrat; and Sen. Sharon Hewitt, who sits on the budget-writing Finance Committee, said at a conference that TOPS is a funding priority.

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